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What is the shortest and longest amount of time you've been on a single job?

How do people work one job for 20+ years?

Are they really passionate about it?
Do they get paid a fortune?
Do they love their co-workers that much?
Married to the boss?

The longest I've ever lasted is 3 years 😬
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Longest was 13 years
Shortest was one day

The long job was a job i really loved and had a great boss and co-workers. I only left when the job ended.

The short one was cleaning toilets in a night club. I'm still trying to unthink what i saw that day 😬
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@iamnikki I really needed a job and they said if i did it for a while, they'd find me something better. But that was the worst job ever
cd4259 · 61-69, M
@SW-User I am a cleaner at a winery, Booze + People= a mess and a half
SW-User
@cd4259 Yes, you would definitely understand what i'm talking about then. People and booze is a bad combination.
FurryFace · 61-69, M
usually 8 months here and there and then Pogey for 8 months then a job again until i became 45 , and over 50 impossible to find work now anyways , i'm too old now and only speak English not French in Quebec
SW-User
Longest was over 19 years. Shortest 7 months.

Longest I was able to move around doing different roles and in different parts of the organisation.
FaeLuna · 31-35, F
Longest is where I'm at now, at 5 years, and I can say I'm very bored with this place. Shortest was a month, but that was the total length of the contract. I guess if we count all the freelance work I used to do, a single day was the shortest I ever worked, but then again, that was the whole job.
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@FaeLuna cool , what do you do now? What was the freelance work?
FaeLuna · 31-35, F
@iamnikki I'm currently a technical writer doing instruction manual work, but I used to do freelance filmmaking, videography, and occassionally graphic design. It's less fun now, but the pay is consistent.
smiler2012 · 56-60
{@iamnikki] one week is the shortest and the longest is my present employee who i have worked for in different jobs is thirty eight years january coming
smiler2012 · 56-60
@iamnikki i was a store keeper when i first joined the national health service for eight years a theatre porter for about ten years an theatre orderly for about nine years and a clinical support worker for the rest
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@smiler2012 not sure what a theater porter is but that's good
smiler2012 · 56-60
@iamnikki basically i collected and took patients to the ward after there operation
MostlyBehaved · 46-50, M
I quit about an hour into my second day at a job. Also worked one for more than 20 years.
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@MostlyBehaved what happened day 2?
MostlyBehaved · 46-50, M
I got called to interview at the job I wanted. Quit the job I took to cover the gap. @iamnikki
Rickg · 31-35, M
2 years and change longest and shortest one day
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@Rickg one day lol, what was the job?
Rickg · 31-35, M
Security in a psych ward for minimum wage
It was a second job too, so I figured I just didn’t need that hassle @iamnikki
3 years and still going.
7 business is the shortest.


20 years is not that difficult.

After some time you might feel that you're too young to jump around or you already get a high salary that other organisations won't offer for your job.

There is also fear of getting losing the job or not getting a new one.


Also It's hard to get management position if you keep jumping.
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@HopelessGuy yep. Going for a career switch. After that I'll try real estate investing. If those don't work out I'm screwed I guess.
My first job was part-time as a clerk-typist when I was in 12th grade. I worked there for 3 years after I graduated. That was the shortest. I've been at my current employer for 24 years. I think the ability to do different things within the company and work with different teams has kept me there ... and they pay well. 😁
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@DreamyCrush nice. What do you do for work?
@iamnikki I work for a construction management company. I started as an Admin. Asst., then became a Project Engineer, next a Compliance Manager, and now a Purchasing Agent.
SW-User
Shortest was 9 months, longest 11 years.
Carazaa · F
God bless you! There are great bosses out there. I have had great bosses. However, Having your own business in this world is the only way to go unless you work in a great Chrisitian school or something!
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@Carazaa yes I can't imagine. I look at my work future And think 😩
Carazaa · F
@iamnikki You can find a great job, I know it. You are a kind and smart person.
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@Carazaa thank you, I try to be.
TexChik · F
In college I took a job to help out a friend. When I walked in excited to work for her I learned the company had let her go to avoid paying her retirement. I turned and walked out.
My longest. 17 years. Starting new job next month
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@TexChik omg. Was she retirement age at that time? That's terrible
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uncalled4 · 56-60, M
19 years here. I'd still be there if they hadn't dissolved the department.
iamnikki · 31-35, F
@uncalled4 what was your position
uncalled4 · 56-60, M
@iamnikki It was known mostly as master control, though I did other things like standards conversions, editing, QC, and video tape. I worked in TV for a major network.
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iamnikki · 31-35, F
@SW-User nice, what was the one day job?
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